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Collin Baja estimates his costume weighs about 50-pounds. John Furrow and Sue McLaughlin assist in helping him change from human to Sven the reindeer . Ref to more online: photos and video of the transition. in the musical Frozen at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA on Friday Feb. 14, 2020. 213012
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Go backstage at ‘Frozen’ at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre and see how an actor becomes Sven the reindeer

For the musical “Frozen,” an actor, by means of a nearly 50-pound design so elaborate that it’s called a puppet rather than a costume, is transformed into a four-legged, hoofed and antlered scene-stealer named Sven.  WATCH

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Caroline Bowman as Elsa in the North American tour of “Frozen,” coming to The Paramount Theatre Feb. 7-March 1, 2020. (Deen van Meer)
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Seattle stages will soon be packed with princesses. Is that a problem?

Renee Zellweger accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Judy” at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) CADC401 CADC401
Movies

What did our Dinner at a Movie pair think of the 2020 Oscars? Moira Macdonald and Bethany Jean Clement had plenty to say.

Terry Frank, longtime Pacific Northwest ballet milliner/craftsperson, is retiring after a long career with PNB. Shot Wednesday, January 15, 2020. In the foreground are several of the tiaras he’s made over the years. He’s also made headpieces, elaborate skirts, and even gingerbread horses (for “Nutcracker”). 212681
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How one crafty guy puts the jewels in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s crowns  WATCH

Friday, January 24, 2020. Standing Buddha, late 6th to early 7th century made of marble at the Asian Art Museum. 212724
Visual Arts

Step inside the reinvented Seattle Asian Art Museum, set to reopen after 3 years

Books

“Weather” by Jenny Offill Credit: Knopf

A feeling of doom permeates the air in ‘Weather,’ Jenny Offill’s latest forecast of American culture 

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

Neil Hughes in “63 Up.”

In ‘63 Up,’ Michael Apted revisits the 63-year-olds who were kids when the remarkable series started  WATCH

Music & Nightlife

Canadian singer and songwriter Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, performs at KeyArena Wednesday night in support of his new release “Starboy.” Photographed Wednesday, April 26, 2017. 201591

Ticket alert: The Weeknd comes to Tacoma Dome this summer for his After Hours tour

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Television

Seattle Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch walks on the field before an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

Yes, that was Marshawn Lynch in HBO’s ‘Westworld’ trailer

Theater

Collin Baja estimates his costume weighs about 50-pounds. John Furrow and Sue McLaughlin assist in helping him change from human to Sven the reindeer . Ref to more online: photos and video of the transition. in the musical Frozen at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA on Friday Feb. 14, 2020. 213012

Go backstage at ‘Frozen’ at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre and see how an actor becomes Sven the reindeer  WATCH

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Lina Gonzalez-Granados, Seattle Symphony’s Conducting Fellow for the 2019-20 season.

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Jacob Lawrence’s “Confrontation at the Bridge,” currently hanging at Greg Kucera Gallery, commemorates the pivotal moment in 1965 when civil-rights marchers faced (and overcame) racist police and townspeople at the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.

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Courtesy the Peterson Brothers THEN: On Monday, Jan. 5, 1880, snow began to fall on Seattle. And it kept on falling. In eight days, 64 inches of snow fell. It was, and still is, a local record. Schools were closed, telegraph lines went down, trains stopped, shipping stalled and a few photographs were taken ? including this one by the Peterson brothers in front of their studio at the foot of Cherry Street. On the right is Yesler?s Hall; farther up the hill, on Fourth Avenue, is the First Baptist Church.

The territorial governor wrote in 1880 that ice and snow were rare in Western Washington — the same day a record snowstorm buried Seattle

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